Cloud Cuts Development Time by 15%, Survey Shows

A January report published by Evans Data of Santa Cruz, Calif., claims that developers report that the use of cloud platforms reduces their overall development time by nearly 15% (on average) - representing time savings approaching one entire day in a typical 5-day work week.

Based on a survey of 400 developers, the 165-page Cloud Development Survey shows that improvements in development speed and efficiency appear to be among the key drivers motivating developers to embrace cloud platforms as their development environment of choice.

Developers also reported that they have been able to streamline their development process through the use of cloud platforms, from trimming down the time that it takes for them to procure tools, to standardizing their development environment across multiple teams, to easily passing their code off to the next member of their team.

Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, said, “Configuring complex systems, developing, testing and deployment can all be done in the cloud with the cloud vendor scaling the servers, providing load balancing, providing a database, and supplying a host of other services that developers used to have to do themselves."

Chapters in the report cover Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud, Private cloud management and data centers, standards and organizations, security, wireless cloud services, tool use, licensing, languages for use in the cloud, and applications that will move first to the cloud.